Living Rent

Tenant advocacy groups have raised fears of unaffordable increases for tenants as Scotland’s temporary rent adjudication measures come to an end today.

Tenants' union Living Rent is calling on the Scottish Government to extend protections after highlighting research which shows rent increases could double after the emergency rent adjudication measures end on 31 March. Newly updated Private Residential Tenancy rent adjudication figures have found th

Twenty-six residents from the Dreghorn Estate secured a meeting with the City of Edinburgh Council last week amid an ongoing campaign against the forced evictions of 19 families due to plans to sell properties.

Tenants’ union Living Rent launched a petition yesterday that called on Glasgow City Council to reinvest money raised by its proposed tourist tax into housing and public services.

A petition has been launched to call on the City of Edinburgh Council to provide support for families facing eviction from the Defence Infrastructure Organisation’s Dreghorn Estate in Lochend.  The DIO is selling property deemed surplus to requirements and as a result, 47 families are con

The number of times councils in Scotland have breached their legal duty to provide accommodation for vulnerable people has quadrupled in a year, according to new statistics. Figures show 7,545 breaches were recorded last year, a sharp rise from 2,000 in the six-month period between April and Septemb

Members of Living Rent, Scotland’s tenants’ union, are demanding that the City of Edinburgh Council commit to spending more money of the tourist tax revenue on social housing. The levy, introduced in legislation by the Scottish Government giving the councils to charge visitors for overni

Legislation to strengthen tenants’ rights and prevent homelessness has passed Stage 1 in the Scottish Parliament.

Tenants staged a rally outside the Scottish Parliament last night calling on MSPs to back rent controls before they debate and vote on the Housing Bill today.

Mel Esquerre, an Edinburgh resident and retrofit campaigner, shares her experience of the City of Edinburgh Council's Mixed Tenure Improvement Service (MTIS) scheme and her concerns that people are being harmed as a result. In the last month alone, five different neighbours have approached me, anxio

Tenants' union Living Rent presented a deputation to Glasgow City Council’s Economy, Housing, Transport and Regeneration City Policy Committee yesterday to call on the local authority to implement the NPF4 and enforce a minimum of 25% affordable housing in all new housing developments.

Members of Living Rent staged an action in George Square last night with a big ‘housing wheel of misfortune’ to call for Glasgow City Council to implement NPF4 and commit to building social housing.

Private rent increases could be tied to inflation and apply to rent increases in between tenancies under fresh proposals from the Scottish Government.

The City of Edinburgh Council has become the first local authority to back a motion in support of rent controls since the introduction of the Scottish Government's new Housing Bill.

Housing bodies have welcomed the 2024-25 Programme for Government (PfG) for acknowledging the reality of the country’s housing emergency but the Scottish Government has been criticised for failing to make up for delays to funding for new homes. Outlining his first PfG as first minister, John S